TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1998//
TI  - Medico-legal and psychiatric aspects in the differential diagnosis of self-wounding behaviour
JO  - Romanian journal of legal medicine
A1  - Kernbach-Wighton, G.
A1  - Thomas, R.S.
A1  - Saternus, K.-s.
SP  - 30
EP  - 39
VL  - 6
IS  - 1
N2  - Personality disorders of the borderline type are characterized by autoaggressive behaviour. These patients use self-mutilation to protect or to restore their personal integrity. They make use of self-inflicted injuries especially in situations characterized by conflicts and personal crisis. The patients are mostly younger women, frequently showing a similar background. The severity of self-inflicted injuries varies from fine and superficial lesions to deep and severe trauma, which sometimes mutilate. Non-overt self- injuries may appear as factitious disease. Patients of another group showed at the same time characteristics combined with overt and non-overt self- injuries. In this group there often can be found a mixture of reality and phantasy/imaginations. In some cases there exists a real certainty of an unknown perpetrator. Morphologic examination should be followed by medical care for the psychiatric patient.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1221-8618
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -